A Comparison of Mixture Modeling Approaches in Latent Class Models With External Variables Under Small Samples
- Authors
- No, Unkyung; Hong, Sehee
- Issue Date
- 12월-2018
- Publisher
- SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
- Keywords
- latent class models with external variables; one-step approach; three-step maximum-likelihood approach; three-step BCH approach; LTB approach; small samples
- Citation
- EDUCATIONAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL MEASUREMENT, v.78, no.6, pp.925 - 951
- Indexed
- SCIE
SSCI
SCOPUS
- Journal Title
- EDUCATIONAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL MEASUREMENT
- Volume
- 78
- Number
- 6
- Start Page
- 925
- End Page
- 951
- URI
- https://scholar.korea.ac.kr/handle/2021.sw.korea/71328
- DOI
- 10.1177/0013164417726828
- ISSN
- 0013-1644
- Abstract
- The purpose of the present study is to compare performances of mixture modeling approaches (i.e., one-step approach, three-step maximum-likelihood approach, three-step BCH approach, and LTB approach) based on diverse sample size conditions. To carry out this research, two simulation studies were conducted with two different models, a latent class model with three predictor variables and a latent class model with one distal outcome variable. For the simulation, data were generated under the conditions of different sample sizes (100, 200, 300, 500, 1,000), entropy (0.6, 0.7, 0.8, 0.9), and the variance of a distal outcome (homoscedasticity, heteroscedasticity). For evaluation criteria, parameter estimates bias, standard error bias, mean squared error, and coverage were used. Results demonstrate that the three-step approaches produced more stable and better estimations than the other approaches even with a small sample size of 100. This research differs from previous studies in the sense that various models were used to compare the approaches and smaller sample size conditions were used. Furthermore, the results supporting the superiority of the three-step approaches even in poorly manipulated conditions indicate the advantage of these approaches.
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